The folks at On2 have done it again. Yet another improved version of VP6.

The new codec extends the advanced patent-pending pixel filtration technique found in the company's VP6.1 codec and can be used to produce compressed video output that is much sharper than VP6.1, sometimes at less than half the datarate of VP6.1.

The release marks an impressive improvement over VP6.1. Among the new features and improvements in VP6.2 are:

* The ability to produce dramatically sharper results
* Improved frame-to-frame consistency
* Improved motion stability
* A new control that allows users to adjust the sharpness of the
compressed output to suit their own preferences
* Improvements to the user interface so the codec can be used in a wider
variety of Video for Window-compatible compression applications

"The improvements achieved by VP6.2 over VP6.1 are visually astounding," said Eric Ameres, Chief Technical Officer and Executive Vice President of Software Development at On2. "VP6.2 achieves superior sharpness at drastically lower datarates than VP6.1. These enhancements will enable our users to achieve huge quality improvements."

EDIT: After using it, I must say, I am really feeling it. Slavas, you should create a new version of ur encoder interface without the bitrate control, since this version has one built-in. I don't know if they'll conflict at all.

I also made a quick example. It is 128kbps VP6 and 64kbps AAC. The clip is of the NBV show Las Vegas. Watch it here

really strange, i asked on2 dev how to recognize keyframes on doom9.org forum, so i could add proper seeking, my version worked fine for me, really strange i'll try to find out what's wrong, currently uploaded version without check so it will play (same dll name as previous)

Hummm... if anyone else having any problems encoding with VP62 ? Mine crashes the second I try to encode anything - vp61 still seems to be fine, but any attempt to encode with 62 crashes my machine. Yes I have downloaded and installed both the new on2 codec package and the new 62 coder dll before someone asks Any ideas?

Update: well I got it to work once - was able to capture using nsvcap after I re-downloaded the codec and re-installed. I then went to try nsvenc and it crashed - went back to try nsvcap again and now that crashes. So I dunno what's going on. At least it worked once

yeah i am having problems with it too. i put the nsvdec_vp62.dll in the plug-ins folder and installed the vp62 codec i can encode and play back the vp62 and vp61 files just fine, the problems comes when i log out and log in/restart after that i can't playback eather vp62 or vp61 untill i unintall the vp62 codec then the vp61 plays back but cant use the vp62 codec. just wounderd if any one knew why this might be happening.